Homeless people in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin are being accommodated in containers due to a lack of hostel facilities in the area. The facility was started in January 2002 by Crosscare, a Catholic social agency in conjunction with the HSE and Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council. It consists of two portacabins that can accommodate 22 people. The facility is funded by the HSE and the County Council through the Department of Environment and Local Government, but managed by Crosscare. The night containers are housed in the grounds of the HSE on Tivoli road in Dún Laoghaire.

Allowing Irish Ferries to reflag in another country is very significant. This means that once they reflag – which they most likely will do – they are not bound by the deal they struck with SIPTU on the minimum wage or any Irish legislation on labour and workers rights. The registration of an Irish Ferries ship to another nation is allowed under International law in the Geneva Convention of the High Seas 1958.

On 1 November 2004, at the Dublin District Court, James McCartan was found guilty of assault causing harm contrary to section 3 of the Offences Against the Person Act. This apparently humdrum case attracted considerable media interest because McCartan had been charged as a result of breaking an opponent's jaw in the course of Gaelic football match.

The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them, says Harold Pinter. Though the truth in his plays is often ambiguous, stating the truth in politics is vital and urgent.This is an edited version of Pinter's lecture upon being awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005

In January 2005 Village submitted questions about 11 unaccompanied minors who had gone missing and were on the missing persons list. The questions were unanswered for several months. Village contacted the Superintendent of the Press Office, Kevin Donohoe, and he said he would look into the delay. In August Village received a reply, which said, "the level of detail you have sought is way beyond what An Garda Síochána is prepared to divulge to unrelated third parties".

Aged 18 months, Marie Therese O'Loughlin fell into a blazing fire at a Legion of Mary mother-and-baby unit. Now she is seeking compensation under the Residential Institutions Redress Board. Emma Browne reports

Marie Therese O'Loughlin is seeking the addition of the Regina Ceoli mother-and-baby unit to the institutions being considered by Residential Institutions Redress Board, so she can get redress for the injuries she received there in 1952.

Analysis of the question and answer session with Dermot Ahern after his discussions with Condoleezza Rice on the use of Shannon by CIA aircraft engaged in illegally transporting terror suspects to countries where torture, as understood in international law, is practiced regularly. This is an edited transcript with comment

Workers in the customer services section of An Post are concnered that they may be outsourced in the future

Like a scene from a play or the screenplay for a film, 30 security personnel disguised as passengers board an Irish Ferries ship and then, several hours later, exchange their civilian clothing for ambiguous paramilitary-style uniforms. With body warmers that look like body armour and carrying accoutrements that look like anti-riot weaponry, what was taking place on board The Isle of Inishmore a few weeks ago was a theatrical show of force.